I've been using Capture One 7 pretty much since it came out, and it's quickly become my developer of choice.
My one big issue which I am having trouble sorting out is moving images and their associated edits around from machine to machine, for example moving from laptop to desktop or from local computer to an external drive for data backup.
On my hard drive, I organize images in folders based on date and then subject, so I might have something that looks like:
\My Photos\2012\201210-12\20121005 - Random Stuff\[bunch of image files shot on October 5, 2012]
When I add new images to the Capture One catalog, I simply point to the new directory (or directories). I know there's a setting where Capture One will copy the images into the catalog, but I have that turned off. So far, this mimics my workflow in Lightroom 3/4 as well.
Now, when I make backups in LR, I just copy the \My Photos\ directory containing all of my raw images neatly organized by date to the new drive, then I export the LR catalog which contains all of the edits. Done. (And I've done the reverse, so I know this is doing what I want.)
My confusion comes when I export C1 catalogs, because these are not a single file (or archive or whatever LR is doing) but a whole directory full of stuff...including what appear to be images. I’ve checked the online help for C1 on importing and exporting catalogs, but I’m still flustered.
So for you C1 users who are sharing images among multiple computers, how are you accomplishing it? Are you even using catalogs or have you decided to use sessions instead? (Coming from LR, I never understood the concept of sessions, but I do get how to make backups of sessions.)
Thank you!
Mike
My one big issue which I am having trouble sorting out is moving images and their associated edits around from machine to machine, for example moving from laptop to desktop or from local computer to an external drive for data backup.
On my hard drive, I organize images in folders based on date and then subject, so I might have something that looks like:
\My Photos\2012\201210-12\20121005 - Random Stuff\[bunch of image files shot on October 5, 2012]
When I add new images to the Capture One catalog, I simply point to the new directory (or directories). I know there's a setting where Capture One will copy the images into the catalog, but I have that turned off. So far, this mimics my workflow in Lightroom 3/4 as well.
Now, when I make backups in LR, I just copy the \My Photos\ directory containing all of my raw images neatly organized by date to the new drive, then I export the LR catalog which contains all of the edits. Done. (And I've done the reverse, so I know this is doing what I want.)
My confusion comes when I export C1 catalogs, because these are not a single file (or archive or whatever LR is doing) but a whole directory full of stuff...including what appear to be images. I’ve checked the online help for C1 on importing and exporting catalogs, but I’m still flustered.
So for you C1 users who are sharing images among multiple computers, how are you accomplishing it? Are you even using catalogs or have you decided to use sessions instead? (Coming from LR, I never understood the concept of sessions, but I do get how to make backups of sessions.)
Thank you!
Mike